Speculative evolution

The Age of the Metamorph Bird Clade Metamorphaves ~~~ The world of the Ultimocene is dominated by strange and wild creatures, many of them utterly alien compared to their introduced ancestors, but of all the planet's abundant life possibly no creatures are more derived than the changelings, or

The Megasquid is a large, omnivorous terasquid from the Northern Forest of 200 million AD in the documentary The Future is Wild. It is the biggest of the Terasquids, as well as the biggest land animal of the time. Larger and more massive than any Human-era land animal at 16.375 feet (5 meters) high and 8.8125 tons (8 tonnes) in weight, a Megasquid can be seen pushing its way through the soaking vegetation, splintering conifer trunks and pulping the branches of lichen trees as it goes. Air…

A collection of quick sketches showcasing some of the lifeforms developed for an ongoing project in speculative evolution. Seiek is a world in which the K-PG mass extinction event never occurred.

Systematic: Aves (Bird), Sphenisciformes (group of Southern Hemisphere seabirds) sphéniscidé (Penguin Group and penguins), Neopygoscelis. Etymology: from the Greek "neo" new and "pygoscelis" name of the kind of penguin. The name "dentate" refers to the toothed beak of the species. Cousins ​​of the 21st century: The penguin Adelie, Pygoscelis adeliae. Excellent diver, this is the most abundant penguins. We pushed to the "extreme" its marine lifestyle imagining a half-armed and half-body…

A series of designs I created as part of the Atlantis Bestiary 2 speculative evolution community project in the Paleostream discord, ran by Joschua Knuppe. Each animal has a scientifically sound ancestor created in Phase 1, which took place in the Paleocene, and given 50 million years to diversify and evolve until the Miocene for stage 2. Atlantis is a Madagascar sized island located on the mid Atlantic ridge that has been colonized by North American and European and African genera and left…

anthro alien, speculative evolution, utility attire.

Cetaceal (Pinnourosaurus arcticus) is an arctic species of amphibious cetacean part of the once-dominant group of whales known as Basilosauridae. The ancestors of cetaceals were probably small relatives of Basilosaurus, with similarily-shaped elongated bodies (unlike Dorudons), that, over time, hunted land-based prey, until they became more adapted to crawl on land, in a fashion similar to seals, hence their species' name. The cetaceals have blubber and have re-evolved fur, unlike their…